April 2011
53 posts
“You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or...”
– Jodi Picoult (Mercy)
“I hope you haven’t forgotten how my kisses taste. But if you have, I’d gladly...”
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood) (via thresca) (via kdeluxxe) (via teddybearhugs)
I’m hooked onto Murakami. I just started reading his work because I didn’t like it that everyone was reading him before. (via himandher)
“You are free. You are free before the noonday sun and free before the moon and...”
– Arabic poem, translated by Dan Choi in the Moth podcast, “Don’t Tell, Martha!”
I heard this on my iPod and the poem stuck with me. Dan Choi is a Korean American Iraq veteran and a gay rights activist and speaks fluent Arabic. He’s a total inspiration.
but this isn’t about him. It’s about...
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...”
– Graham Greene (via klammerauf) (via suzywire) (via himandher)
“That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via whokilled) (via mandalay) (via worldonfire) (via sleepanddream) (via himandher)
“I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the...”
“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via justbesplendid) (via himandher)
“I want to be the one you want. The one you need. Your reason for getting up in...”
“Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss in The History of Love. (via himandher, edatrix)
“Say what you mean and mean what you say. Nobody has time to sit and guess your...”
– (via independentladies)
“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they’ll...”
